St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-13
THEY MADE BIG RUNS.
Schaefer Defeats SiossOn in n tame
Of Billiards Marked by Brilliant


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CHICAGO, April 12.-Central Music hall was
crowded this evening with an audience who
like expert billiards. The at traction was the
fourteen-inch balk line game. 500 points,
played between George F. Slosson, OF Chi
cago, and Jacob Schaefer, of st. Louis. The
stakes were $500 Il side. After the usual
preliminaries Schaefer won the bank and sat
down with a goose egg to his credit. SloSson
dalled with the worries to the extent of
Is caroms, and then took his seat owing
to bad kiss. The balls were apparently dead
against Schaefer until the ninth inning when
he corralled them. On retiring he was cred
tied with g. points. In the meantime SlOsson
had been
PEGGING AWAY,
and when the seventh inning had been
reached the score stood: Schaefer. 80; Slos-
son, ITO. Small runs were made by each
until Slosson got the "rollerS' under his
control They obeyed his magic wand, bus
grew turbulent and at the fifteenth inning
the Professor sat down after making run of
10 points. Schaefer followed but made a
''bull' and took his seat much to the discom-
future of his friends and hackers. In the sew
enteenth inning SlossOn picked out %
caroIns, but retired on a miScue. Schaefer
knocked out one in the eighteenth and quit
put "a to his account and Slosson when he
reached Schaefers run 81 was loudly cheered.
He continued, however, and before quitting
was credited with a run of l35. Ill luck fol-
lowed the Wizard and when he made several
amateurish plays, many of the audience
quilted the place.
INTEREST IN THE GAME
by no means decreased, for in the twentieth
inning the Chicago boy piled up 70 hard
earned points. In the twenty-first inning the
balls travelled advantageously and before
Jake sat down he scored 101 and Slosson
did nothing. Again the man from the bridge
city knocked the spheres to the extent of rs,
when he quit. Goose eggs followed for each
up to the twenty-fourth inning. when Slos-
son made %. Schaefer fell down on
simple shot and Slosson again
went to the front. In the twentytifth
inning the score stood: Schaefer, 345;
Slosson 511 The Wizard had ill-luck follow.
he made go. He went 10 pieces afterward
In the thirtieth inning Slosson peregrinated
about the green cloth and scraped together
e. the game standing COS for SlossOn and 42(
for Schaefer. In the thrty-first inning,
AMID LOUD APPLAUSE,
the Wizard ran 126 and thus made the game
interesting, it being COS for SCISSOR and SAT
for SchaeIer. Slosson made nothing, an6
when Schaefer passed him with q run OF
81 the applause was deafening. BAG
luck followed Slosson and goose eggs
were numerous. Miraculous scratches
helped Schaefer and he coined 81 the score
standing Schaefer T04; Sosson COZ. Both
players became ratified and made but few
points until the thirty-seventh inning. wher
Schaefer got but nine. In the fortieth inning
Slosson pounded the worries for seven
Schaefer followed with an egg. Miscues ant
bad breaks followed until the forty-seventt
inning when the spheres rolled his way. He
ran sixty-seven and settled the agony
leaving his opponent at the 636 flag. Highes
runs, Schaefer 1875; Slosson 1874; average
Schaefer 17-35-45; Slosson 1884; time foul
hours.